Angels Will Eat Only Bloodworms

[techen]

As the title says, My angels wont eat flakes, Pellets, Any other frozen foods. Just bloodworms, Anyone got a clue as to why or a way to get them to eat something else? It's not very healthy for my other fish to be snacking on bloodworms everyday.

 

[fluttermoth]

Cichlids are well known for getting fixated on one kind of food. You just have to be strong and not give into them, so don't give them any bloodworm at all. Keep giving them what you want them to eat. They will not starve themselves to death; you have to have more willpower than they do!

 

[csfishkeeper]

Some fish choose to be picky until they get hungry. You can try soaking some flakes or pellets in garlic guard to entice them. It won't hurt the fish if they miss a few meals.

 

[Tongue_Flicker]

Despite being picky, angelfish will eat almost any animal matter based food that will fit in their pecky mouths but they do overeat very easily and quite noticeable so watch out for that

 

[Stimo]

game of will power here. my oscars used to be like that 

 

[fluttermoth]

game of will power here. my oscars used to be like that

Oh, oscars are one of the worst for it.

When we got ours (he's a rescue) he was fixated on cichlid pellets (he still does prefer them to anything else). He didn't eat for ten days when I started putting him on a proper diet.

Every time I put a piece of prawn or fish in, he'd either swim over and watch it sink to the bottom with a mournful face (and you know how mournful oscars can look!) or back rapidly off to the other end of the tank and look terrified 

 

[dougie]

I've got fish that are a couple of years old & I only ever see them spit food out. They're full grown, colourful & healthy so they must eat something! Like Fluttermoth said, they won't starve themselves to death. After a week or so of no bloodworm, those flakes will look a lot tastier. You can then stick with that as a staple for a month & then throw the odd treat feed of bloodworm, Brine Shrimp etc once a week.
Good luck.

 

[Stimo]

 

game of will power here. my oscars used to be like that

Oh, oscars are one of the worst for it.

When we got ours (he's a rescue) he was fixated on cichlid pellets (he still does prefer them to anything else). He didn't eat for ten days when I started putting him on a proper diet.

Every time I put a piece of prawn or fish in, he'd either swim over and watch it sink to the bottom with a mournful face (and you know how mournful oscars can look!) or back rapidly off to the other end of the tank and look terrified 

 

 
sounds about right haha , great characters on them .
i found it so funny when one time i had to move house ......got it all sorted set up , running , put them back in and they just sat there on the bottom of the tank for a few days sulking because everything had changed.
lovely fish that i would love to own again but i just don't have the space anymore